Hair clasp



March 17, 1931. J KEMPER 1,796,996

HAIR CLASP Filed Nov. 2, 1929 Znvenor:

g., a; m r K /7 and GM Patented Mar. 17, 1931 UNITED STATES JOSEPH KEEPER, OF IBERLIN-WILMERSDORF, GERMANY HAIR CLASP Application filed November 2, 1929, Serial No. 404,370, and in Germany November 7, 1928.

The invention relates to a hair clasp as used for securing the lady head dress of the modern short-clipped fashion. The object of the invention is to provide for a hair clasp Q which is not noticeable when worn for securing the locks of hair in the desired position.

The invention consists in a special shape of that part of the clasp which rests inside when pinching-in the hair.

The invention is explained by the accompanying drawing representing an instance of execution and in which Fig. 1 is a hair clasp designed according'to the invention and Fig. 2, on a larger scale, a diagrammatic view of a clasp showing the winding which constitutes the coating of the visible portion of said clasp.

vThe hair clasp consists of wire or a strip of sheet metal bent together about its centre and the sides of which 1 and 2 press against each other like springs. When the clasp is being worn, the lock of hair to be secured is pinched-in between both sides 1 and 2. The

side 2 of the clasp remaining outside after the lock of hair having been pinched-in is tightly wound, as shown in Fig. 2, with a thread-shaped material so that this side of the clasp is provided with a closed coating 3.

The coating material is preferably natural silk and its tinge is so chosen that the coating made of on the clasp side 2 corresponds as closely as possible to the color of the hair of the person intending to use the hair clas under discussion. In lieu of natural sil threads also threads of artificial silk, cotton or other fibrous material or celluloid may be used for being wound upon the side 2.

As Fig. 2 shows, the coating 3is preferably made in such a way that one end 4 of the material to be wound up is fastened by means of glue to the free end of the side 2 to be coated this 21st day of October, 1929.

The side 1 of the hair clasp is preferably somewhat longer than the side 2 coated and the free end 5 of the side 1 is bent into the projection of the other side so that the clasp can be opened more easily.

This shape of the free end 5 of the inside, shank 1 is of special importance with regard to the fact that it is impossible to wind the hair-like thread around the fore-end of the outside shank 2 so as to cover also the utmost point of this shank. This point, therefore remains naked. Now when the clasp is inserted into the hair that portion of the hair, under which the free end of the inside shank 1 enters, will be lifted up by the bent end of this shank above the point of the outside shank 2, so that the naked point of the latter is also made invisible and indeed so much more if a thick portion of hair has been pinched-in between the shanks of the clasp.

The new hair clasp presents the advantage that the bright lacquering till now usual and of displeasant efiect of the clasp can be donev away with and that the visible portion of the clasp not covered by the hair has the same appearance as the hair of the person wearing it on account of the thread-shaped coating of the same tinge as the hair so that the clasp is almost invisible when being worn.

I declare that what I claim is A hair clasp of resilient material comprising an outside shank covered with hair-like threads, but having a naked point and an inside shank having its free end bent up into the projection of the naked point of the outside shank.

In testimony whereof, I have si ned my name to this'specification at Berlin, ermany,

JOSEPH KEMPER.

and that then the. thread-shaped materialis tightly wound upon the said side of the clasp. The winding having arrived at the bend, the thread is wound around the latter and wound back some turns, fastened and coated with a small quantity oflue so that this end of the winding materia is secured, too, and no 50 more susceptible of being detached. I 

